Kirsty McGeehttp://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com
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Those Old Demons: 1. Running With The Blueshttp://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/running-with-the-blues-2
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<p><i>What can you do when you’re all unknown
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When you’re lost and you’re weary and you feel all alone
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You’ve been wandering so long that you’re all skin and bone
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You took the wrong path, baby, now you can’t come home
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How do you care when your caring is through
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When you’ve run yourself ragged when you’ve cried yourself blue
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When you just keep on running but you don’t know where to
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I took the wrong path, baby, I can’t come home to you
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What do you do? What do you say?
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When you don’t know why you’re running, you’re just running away
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And day follows night sure as night follows day
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You...</i></p>Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:00:00 -0000http://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/running-with-the-blues-22014-07-30T12:00:00ZThose Old Demons: 2. Salthttp://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/salt-2
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<p><i>You put a lot of trust in that man
<br>
But his kisses barely grazed your broken heart
<br>
And his hot hands strayed before you gave them leave
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I guess I could have told you that part
<br>
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You came off lightly, no lasting damage done
<br>
Next time I guess you’re going to listen to my advice
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If I told you once, I told you twice
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There ain’t enough salt to melt that ice
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He’s a cold man, he’s cold up to the level
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And he does his level best to seem less so
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And he’s fooled so many people so don’t take it to heart
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It isn’t really such a body blow
<br>
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He’s a cold man, he’s cold up to the brim
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But it’...</i></p>Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:00:00 -0000http://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/salt-22014-07-30T12:00:00ZThose Old Demons: 3. To The Dogshttp://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/to-the-dogs-2
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<p><i>To learn,
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To learn to swallow your fear
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Slide ever onwards out of here
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To slide, to slide
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Like it or not
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To cut through the ties and blindly fly
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To fly, to fly
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To rustle your wings
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To feel the world crumble yet blindly to sing
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To sing, to sing,
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Always something more to say
<br>
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And you say it&#39;s over
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but it isn&#39;t over
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How can it be over
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when everything&#39;s gone to the dogs?
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The dogs,
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The dogs are baying tonight
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Out in the pale moon&#39;s slippery light
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and the stars,
<br>
the stars are still shining brightly
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in just the same way
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that they shine nightly
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The night, this night
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...</i></p>Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:00:00 -0000http://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/to-the-dogs-22014-07-30T12:00:00ZThose Old Demons: 4. A Plaguehttp://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/a-plague
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<p><i>Well if love for you is conquest I can see you’ve reached your peak
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Seems like they only taught you curses when they taught you how to speak
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And all your angels are departed with a burning in their eyes
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And oh lord, I’m glad that I’m gone
<br>
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Seems like an ill wind blew you where the ill winds tend to blow
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It picked you up and it threw you like you were a seed to throw
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And like a seed you burrow down; like a seed you grow
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And oh lord, I’m glad that I’m gone
<br>
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And you walk so tall
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As though no one here could ever see you fall
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Like you know more than we do…
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A plague on all the hous...</i></p>Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:00:00 -0000http://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/a-plague2014-07-30T12:00:00ZThose Old Demons: 5. A Family Traithttp://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/a-family-trait
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<p><i>It’s a family trait
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Like the colour of my skin
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Like pale blue eyes
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Coming round again
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And a family like ours
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Keeps to its own
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There’s no love as gentle
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As the lover you know
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I know you find it hard to understand
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How the lover’s touch comes from the brother’s hand
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But we’ve grown up closer, closer than most do
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And I won’t break with my tradition for a man like you
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I know you don’t talk about these things
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And how it’s all done in white and with those
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Diamond wedding rings
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But I love someone that I already know
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And if you don’t like what you’re seeing you can pack your bags...</i></p>Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:00:00 -0000http://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/a-family-trait2014-07-30T12:00:00ZThose Old Demons: 6. Those Old Demonshttp://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/those-old-demons-2
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<p><i>Collect up your demons and bring them to me
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All your fears in the darkness that you won’t let me see
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and the guttering wick
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and the stuttering word
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and the muttering low
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and the simply unheard
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Collect up your demons that shine in the light
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and we’ll catch them like feathers and we’ll bind them up tight
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and with fire and with water
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with blood and with dirt
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we will bind them together
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so they no longer hurt
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Cos those old demons they’ll always get you
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they’ll always get you
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they’ll always get you
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Those old demons they’ll come and they’ll get you
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if you don’t chase those ...</i></p>Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:00:00 -0000http://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/those-old-demons-22014-07-30T12:00:00ZThose Old Demons: 7. Prayhttp://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/pray-2
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<p><i>If you pray to me, you’d better pray out loud
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Don’t pray to me desperate,
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Don’t pray to me proud
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Don’t pray to me lost, you will always be found
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You’ve gotta crawl down upon your knees on the stony ground
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Don’t pray to me weak if your spirit is strong
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Don’t stand up with the righteous when you know you’ve done wrong
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Don’t stand there as if defeated, not making a sound
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You’ve gotta crawl down upon your knees on the stony ground
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And that ground’s gonna hurt like you’ve never hurt before
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There’ll be blood on your shoes when you walk to my door
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But don’t pray to me clean, just ...</i></p>Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:00:00 -0000http://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/pray-22014-07-30T12:00:00ZThose Old Demons: 8. Magnoliahttp://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/magnolia
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<p><i>Love, you play a dangerous game
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to come so close and then to shy away
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Close enough for me to blame
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but never close enough to stay
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And love, you are a wanton thing
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You want to take more than you bring
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But I am wise, too wise to play
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Too wise to be all that I say
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Oh, Magnolia blossom sweet
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You’re what I crave, you’re what I need
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But you know and everybody knows
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How sweetness comes and sweetness goes
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Love, your light so pure and clear
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It shines on me, it knows I’m here
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I try to hide, I shy away
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You come so close, but you never stay
<br>
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So sweet, so sure, so tenderly
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You la...</i></p>Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:00:00 -0000http://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/magnolia2014-07-30T12:00:00ZThose Old Demons: 9. Love's Great Liehttp://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/loves-great-lie-2
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<p><i>Love’s great lie
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Makes you want to lay down and die
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Breaks all the rules until the broken rules apply
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Salts your tears every time you cry
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Love’s great lie
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Leaves you wondering why
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Oh how many knots must a broken heart untie
<br>
to undo it? (I wish I knew it)
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Every spark
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Every tender beat
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Every minor fluctuation of your lonesome body heat
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Every pit pat of a heart as it loses a beat
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but all I know is love
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All I know is love
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All I know is...
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Love, love, love, love....
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Love’s sweet shame: making the wild one tame
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Breaking the rules but then you’ll always take the blame
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You...</i></p>Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:00:00 -0000http://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/loves-great-lie-22014-07-30T12:00:00ZThose Old Demons: 10. Sweet Talkhttp://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/sweet-talk
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<p><i>Well your eyes are as bright as brass pennies
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and your voice is as clear as a bell
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I watched you sweet talk your way into heaven
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Let&#39;s see you sweet talk your way out of hell
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And you sing in a very fine alto
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You whisper like settling flames
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You can make fellas do what you want to
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and then make them do it again
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Well you swing your way on out of trouble
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and you swing every time to success
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I&#39;ve never seen you deal with a failure
<br>
never seen you clear up a mess
<br>
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When all the lights go on on your little parade
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of only the bright and the good
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You&#39;ll be there doing just what you ...</i></p>Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:00:00 -0000http://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/sweet-talk2014-07-30T12:00:00ZThose Old Demons: 11. Survivalhttp://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/survival
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<p><i>I’m a survivor
<br>
I’ve lived through things to tell a tale or two
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That’s why the tales I tell
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They always sound so true
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At the bottom of the river in a burned-out boat
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There’s a smile and it used to be mine
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But they burned all the bridges that I crossed over
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Sipping the blood that used to be wine
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You need me
<br>
You won’t admit it
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I can teach you a thing or two
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When you cease learning
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You start teaching
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What I could share with you
<br>
<br>
At the top of a tree where it spins in the breezes
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There’s a heart in the branches and it’s mine
<br>
I learned all about branches from the forest in me...</i></p>Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:00:00 -0000http://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/survival2014-07-30T12:00:00ZThose Old Demons: 12. Your Main Manhttp://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/your-main-man
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<p><i>When you walked in here I thought you were someone I once knew
<br>
Someone I knew well a long time ago
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And when I spoke, I did speak out of turn
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There are some things that we learn
<br>
And there are others we just know
<br>
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And I just knew that you were gonna need me
<br>
You were gonna need me – so here I am
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And I will wait. I will wait until you’re ready
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I will wait until you’re ready
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I’m your main man
<br>
<br>
When you blew in here like a storm in April
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You scattered my thoughts to these four winds
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And I am ready to see and to be the one you’re needing
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I will be the seedling that will grow upon th...</i></p>Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:00:00 -0000http://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/your-main-man2014-07-30T12:00:00ZSandman [Single]: 1. Sandmanhttp://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/sandman-3
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<p><i>Right before the you close your eyes
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Whispering your prayers
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When the sandman blows your eyes
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I’ll be there
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When you wake up in the night
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Sounds the second stair
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That creaks under the careless foot
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I’ll be there
<br>
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Gather roses while you may
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While the bloom is full
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For the blossom soon will fade
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And the bloom grow dull
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Right before the morning light
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Creeps soft upon the sill
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When the shadows chase the night
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I never will
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When your voice is softly heard
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Singing in the morning light
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But the note does not ring true
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I’ll be there
<br>
<br>
Right before you sl...</i></p>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:00:00 -0000http://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/sandman-32013-02-05T12:00:00ZSandman [Single]: 2. Setting Of The Sunhttp://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/setting-of-the-sun-2
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<p><i>Mercy, mercy, won’t you see what I’ve become
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I see the new day a-coming and I turn around and run
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You say the old day is over and the new one’s just become
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But won’t we all go to heaven with the setting of the sun
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Oh oh all of my nighttimes and all of my days
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I’ve been looking for something I’ve been looking through a haze
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And I could have done so many things that should have been left undone
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But won’t we all go to heaven with the setting of the sun
<br>
<br>
Clap hands
<br>
Clap hands
<br>
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Well I was born into this world so happy and so free
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But your kind of loving got a hold over ...</i></p>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:00:00 -0000http://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/setting-of-the-sun-22013-02-05T12:00:00ZContraband: 1. Something Going Onhttp://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/something-going-on
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<p><i>It’s funny how the water always falls down to the ground
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And no matter how you listen their voices make the same old sound
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You hear them in the evening when the sun sinks far below
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You’ll hear them sing some kind of melody
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Familiar as your own familiar face
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You do not recognise tonight…
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That’s why you’re sure there must be something going on…
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And you notice in the mirror like you noticed once before
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That there are signs of age upon you
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And that gradually you notice more and more
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The years that tug your skin
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A prominence of bone
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And while you once saw light within your eye
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You...</i></p>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:00:00 -0000http://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/something-going-on2012-08-07T12:00:00ZContraband: 2. I Burn For Youhttp://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/i-burn-for-you
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<p><i>I slept last night in the boughs of a tall tree
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That stretched its branches skywards
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If I have learned any lesson from sleeping beside you
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I’d say keep your feet planted firmly on the ground
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I rode many journeys both with and without you
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Travelled the roads till my feet were their colour
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I saw many stars even before I met you
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When you held my waist and my feet left the ground
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And oh, it hurts more than I can say
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To have your whole world and then to have it swept away
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A raging fire couldn’t do me any harm
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And I know because I burn for you
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I burn for you
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I burn for you
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<br>
I’v...</i></p>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:00:00 -0000http://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/i-burn-for-you2012-08-07T12:00:00ZContraband: 3. Sequinshttp://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/sequins
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<p><i>Old Tom lies blind, tell me, what do you see
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Why’d you shake your locks when you look at me
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Oh love is blind, love is blind as the adder in the sand
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You can’t see the diamond for the sequins in your hand
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Old Tom lies blind, tell me, what do I do?
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If it weren’t for my eyes, I’d be blinded like you
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For I cannot see further than this once-promised land
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I can’t see the diamonds for the sequins in my hand
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Oh love unravels like a tumbling sea
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Unravelling love, why do you carry me?
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If I drown in your arms, make it easy for me
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Let me die before I ever know you’re gone away from me
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...</i></p>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:00:00 -0000http://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/sequins2012-08-07T12:00:00ZContraband: 4. Solacehttp://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/solace
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<p><i>The world is not a happy place
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The people in it are not nice
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There’s danger lurking everywhere
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And there are snakes in paradise
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You have to work it out somehow
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I’m through with giving you advice
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Don’t listen to a word I say
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Who taught you, son, to trust that way?
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The world is not a pretty place
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The people in it couldn’t care
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What trusting men and women do
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Won’t make allowances for you
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You have to work it out somehow
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Find a way and muscle through
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For you will find as I have found
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There’s no one will take care of you
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That way lies madness and despair
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I can tell you, ...</i></p>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:00:00 -0000http://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/solace2012-08-07T12:00:00ZContraband: 5. Rebeccahttp://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/rebecca
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<p><i>Morning comes, so full of its own importance
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With a single piece of gold upon its tongue
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To chase away the shadows so they hide under the stones
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Until the afternoon when they grow long
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And in the summer morning comes, it comes too early
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When in the winter she will always come too late
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You can’t rely on the morning to awake you
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Because mornings never give, they only take, take, take
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Summer’s child, you’re prettiest when you’re sober
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With a tied and tattered promise in your mouth
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To chase away his demons so they hide under the stones
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You only give him him so much
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Then you hea...</i></p>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:00:00 -0000http://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/rebecca2012-08-07T12:00:00ZContraband: 6. New Birdhttp://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/new-bird
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<p><i>Wings fold around you like they did before
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Does your flying astound you, new bird?
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Feathers unruly and truly so free
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To catch the wind’s shadow as once you caught me
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Oh are the hills brown still, do the rivers run wide
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As bright silver ribbons that capture the light
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Unfurled, you unwind, like all new things you’re blind
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Does your flying astound you, new bird?
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Broken the tether, harsh winds on bright feather
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You’re stronger than smoke and you’re pale as the air
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The big skies surround you now the wide world has found you
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Yet your bold and bright shadow still falls everywhere
<br>
...</i></p>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:00:00 -0000http://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/new-bird2012-08-07T12:00:00Z3602014-07-30T12:00:00Z